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All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
Dorothy ParkerAutobiography - 2
Art is a form of catharsis.
Dorothy ParkerArts and Artists - 3
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy ParkerDress - 4
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Dorothy ParkerParties - 5
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Dorothy ParkerParties -
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Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
Dorothy ParkerPregnancy - 7
Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
Dorothy ParkerGratitude - 8
He -- Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
Dorothy ParkerOffice - 9
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
Dorothy ParkerHollywood - 10
I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. Out there, I called it.
Dorothy ParkerHollywood - 11
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Dorothy ParkerGossip - 12
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
Dorothy ParkerMen - 13
I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy ParkerApathy - 14
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
Dorothy ParkerWriters and Writing - 15
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
Dorothy ParkerTragedy -
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
Dorothy ParkerLove - 17
Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
Dorothy ParkerSuicide - 18
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
Dorothy ParkerLovers - 19
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
Dorothy ParkerActing and Actors - 20
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
Dorothy ParkerSorrow - 21
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy ParkerChildren - 22
The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
Dorothy ParkerWords - 23
There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy ParkerWit - 24
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Dorothy ParkerAdversity - 25
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Dorothy ParkerBooks and Reading
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